That leads to people flying airplanes into buildings.
Scripture and verse? We are not talking about non founding beliefs here are we? If so we can start with atheism and science so called. They whacked em by the cities full, literally. A Christian martyr lays down his life to save as many as possible. Those that are suicide bombers lay down their life to kill as many as possible. Big difference!
So? Does TV and movies and Obama speeches get limited to the US??
I think we can both agree that foreign governments are less friendly to christians. For example, you can be put in prison for openly evangelizing in China. I am sure that christians are severely persecuted in some Muslim countries (and just the opposite in some Western countries).
The trend ic clear and insidious and irreversible.
The pagan school system? What little credibility you had is gone now.
Right, the Satanic godless school system.
Obama is a christian, or were you unaware of that?
His policies are not are you aware of that? This isn't personal (unless the guy sets up an abomination on the temple mount or something)
It is not illegal in the US for students to read the Bible at school. Period. They are not getting arrested for reading the Bible. You can cry wolf all you want, but we can see right through it.
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¶ At Pace High School near Pensacola, Fla., teachers cited
the Bible as fact in class and one teacher preached to students with a bullhorn as they arrived at school. In litigation that ended in July, the
Santa Rosa County district agreed to stop promotion of religion but said that teachers could pray in private settings and could use expressions like God bless you.
¶ In Sumner County, Tenn., teachers led students in prayer and Bible study, and allowed Gideons International to distribute Bibles during school hours. Officials
agreed this month to end the practices.
¶ In Baltimore, under threat of a lawsuit last spring, district officials stopped a school principal from holding prayer services to help students prepare for a standardized test.
We continue to see, on a regular basis across the country, public school officials who include prayer in school events, try to convert students and engage in other promotion of religion, said Heather Weaver, a lawyer with the
A.C.L.U.s program on religious freedom.
In recent years, public school officials have engaged in these activities even more aggressively, Ms. Weaver added.
Christian legal advocates counter that such plain violations are far less common than the opposite problem: overzealous officials trying to cleanse the schools of religion, punishing students for protected speech like personal prayer or handing out devotional messages to their friends.
The free-speech rights of students and teachers are under an all-out assault, said Kelly Shackelford, president of the
Liberty Institute, a Christian legal group in Plano, Tex. He described one continuing legal case in which children had pencils ripped out of their hands because they carried a Christian message and students were banned from writing Merry Christmas to the soldiers.
Despite such disputes, legal religious expression is more present in schools now than it has been for decades, said Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the
First Amendment Center in Washington who advises school districts and helped develop teacher guidelines that are consistent with the law. It has been firmly established, he said, that students may pray if it is not disruptive, and can share their faith with other students. Teachers may pray with other teachers outside of class, though not in front of students during school hours.
But gray areas persist and dozens of bitter disputes erupt every year over the propriety of student prayers at graduations and football games (usually ruled illegal if given over a loudspeaker to a captive audience) or whether children can hand out written prayers at a Christmas party (permissible in theory, some experts say, but courts have allowed school officials to make judgments based on the circumstances).
Watchdog groups like the A.C.L.U.,
Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the
Freedom From Religion Foundation say that in the last few years, they have learned more often about what they call blatant violations like the South Carolina rally. It is unclear, they say, whether the number of such events is growing, or whether they are now more likely to come to light. But still, these advocates say, even when clear violations occur, concerned families are often reluctant to bring legal challenges because they fear social hostility.
The September prayer rally at New Heights Middle School in Jefferson had deep support in the community. With a population of 47,000, Chesterfield County supports at least 200 Christian churches, according to Paul Wood Jr., pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Cheraw, S.C.
Theres not a lot of religious diversity here, so it becomes hard for people to believe that everybody isnt a Christian, said Mr. Wood, who was perhaps the only pastor in the county to publicly question the rally.
The students were addressed by
Christian Chapman of Charlotte, N.C., who describes himself as a traveling evangelist and often speaks at schools, he said in an interview.
I definitely think that we should try to get our relationship with Christ back into the schools, said Mr. Chapman, 43. Jesus represents everything we want our students to live by.
For non-Christians to hear this message, he said, is
no worse than Bible believers being forced to hear about evolution every day."
Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools - NYTimes.com